Neurologists tell us that, most of all, the human mind craves novelty. We like to be surprised, and caught off guard.
Art making is a direct connection through the hand from the brain.
I create replicas of surprising experiences. I experiment with elemental mineral pigments, animal bristles, plant oil, wool, stoneware, wood.
We are in an apocalyptic climate shift. As a result, the human organism is suffering a psychic frailty. We're manipulated by uncontrolled situations. We fall into a confused vertigo.
We become mesmerized by power and light.

WIKIPEDIA citations

Slivka, Rose C.S., East Hampton Star. December 3, 1987
"Selected by Helen A. Harrison, the museum's curator, the show is sponsored by the Republic National Bank of New York and includes three purchase prizes for the bank's collection chosen by the painter Larry Rivers. The first prize winner Ms. Axon, at 37, seems to be more related to the Abstract Expressionists and European Modernism than any of her other fellow painters in this exhibition. The velocity of her drawing and brushwork, combining a circular sweep of long and short strokes, drives to a vortex that scribes around a series of short directional daubs, high and cool color . . . The sheer force of her charcoal drawing, incorporated in the color of Landing Zone Four, done in 1987 - as well as in her purchase award-winning oil on canvas Straight. No Chaser, done in 1988, have so much energy in the movement and agitation of the surface, it is a pleasure to see this aspect of Modernism receiving a fresh infusion of talent."

Braff, Phyllis. The New York Times "The New Generation Shows Its Colors" May 22, 1988 p.26
"Werner Kramarsky, a collector residing in East Hampton and New York, selected the core of the show, devoted to artists under 35 . . . The energy is less subtle and more direct in McCrady Axon's paintings and handsome etchings. The pieces usually function at two levels, for there is a spiritual meaning in the dominant circular gesture, and a sense of pulsating action to be experienced through a busy, painterly and colorful surface."

Braff, Phyllis. The New York Times July 6, 1988 p.18
"The Axon paintings seek a different sort of harmony with nature, one reflecting the tumult of environmental forces. Vivid, explosive color moves swifly to give the sense of swirling atmosphere. Brush gestures suggest flickering natural light."

Paluel-Marmont, Claudia. Galerie J et J Donguy, Paris, catalogue, Presented by Olivier Renaud-Clement, curator. preface"It is this chink in the slick surface that steals her. Here is an improper flaw, a troupe of guideposts warning you of the brink. She pursues it, forgetful of the railing."
Anderson, Jack New York Times September 17, 1995 Arts, The Dance: Rappaport
"The choreography of "Fire with Fire" was upstaged by both words and objects . . . But this dollhouse, designed by Lady McCrady, was a house that appeared to be on fire."

Prince, Dinah. Daily News January 8, 1986 p.31
"An artist with startling green eyebrows is showing her equally startling paintings at Dash & Dash . . inspired by construction sites in the streets of Manhattan, Paris and Tokyo. " Things happen which no one pays attention to," McCrady says. "They put up tents, like outposts in the desert." At the opening, fashion designers, the look-alike Clark Gable and the authentic Andy Warhol mingled. McCrady first made an impression in New York in 1981 with her Valentines Day party, where 100 revelers consumed five cases of champagne and tossed pink heart confetti out her 16th floor windows. Dash & Dash owners Philip Dash (who also has a job at Odeon) and Hugo Oropesa (who also works at Channel 13) say McCrady's works are a hit. One piece, a billboard hung on 11th street, was appreciated by a thief."

de Vecchi, Lerner. L'Oeil Revue D’Art. No 364 Novembre 1985 Paris Lady Mc Crady
"But at which speed to run, how far to allow oneself to be tempted, shouldn't we give limits to danger, therefore to life without fear of the unknown? Mc Crady is a member of the current young artists who place themselves outside the schools, who are after all everything but fleeting.”